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Re: X-win more effiecient than Win95?



Þann 14-Jan-98 skrifar George Bonser:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Rick Jones wrote:
> 
>> This is somewhat incorrect, George.  Yes. X uses a protocol called XDMCP to
>> allow xfer's of information, as you have explained, between local and remote
>> machines.  And X uses sockets and protocols when used locally.  But it is no
>> different than Windows.  They are both Graphical User Interfaces (GUI's).
> 
> Without widget sets and a window manager, Simply running an X server on
> your machine is rather useless.  
> 
  I agree with you on this.  The concept of comparing X with Windows is
bogus.  You could compare Windows with CDE, KDE, but not with X.

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